The Sherman Early Childhood learning series with author Catherine Hernandez-FR and SJ

Event Details:

On Wednesday January 25th, the UNB Early Childhood Centre and the UNB Faculty of Education, host The Sherman Early Childhood Learning Series: Literacies Across a Lifetime with Canadian author; Catherine Hernandez author of Where do Your Feelings Live? and novel turned film Scarborough.  

During the coming school year, selected Canadian authors will offer a one-hour online session open the public. The goal of this series is to engage participants in thinking and learning about the complexities of what it means to be diverse literate learners.

The public is invited on January 25th, 7:30 – 8:30 PM AST.

TO REGISTER:  https://AnnShermanEarlyChildhoodLearningSeries.eventbrite.ca

THE SHERMAN EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING SERIES, LITERACIES ACROSS A LIFETIME: CELEBRATING CANADIAN AUTHORS 2022 - 2023

WINTER 2023 AUTHORS

January 25- Catherine Hernandez recently published Where Do Your Feelings Live?

Catherine Hernandez is a Canadian writer, author, and playwright. She is a proud queer woman of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian descent and married into the Navajo Nation. Her novel Scarborough (2017) was a finalist for Canada Reads 2022. Scarborough was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Toronto Book Award. In 2020 Catherine approached documentary filmmakers Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson to adapt her novel for the screen. The film won Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture with Nakhai and Williamson winning Best Directors. This film is available on Crave.

Hernandez's other books include M is for Mastashe: A Pride ABC Book (2015), I Promise (2019), named one of the best Canadian picture books of 2019, the dystopian novel Crosshairs (2020), and Where Do Your Feelings Live? (2022). Her newest book The Story of Us releases February 28, 2023.

Her novel and film Scarborough follows the lives of three children living in poverty. A compassionate early childhood educator, Ms. Hina builds a sense of community, caring for the children and their families.

February 22- Amanda Leduc Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space

Amanda Leduc is a disability rights advocate, disabled writer and author of the non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space (2020) shortlisted for the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Non-Fiction and longlisted for the 2020 Barbellion Prize. She is also the author of the novels The Miracles of Ordinary Men (2013) and The Centaur’s Wife (2021).

Amanda has lived in Ontario, England, BC, and Scotland, and has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews. Amanda has cerebral palsy and presently makes her home in Hamilton, Ontario, where she lives with a very lovable, very destructive dog and serves as the Communications and Development Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Canada’s first festival for diverse authors and stories.

Leduc’s valuing of diverse bodies is anchored in an examination of how fairy tales have shaped our collective expectations of disabilities across lives.

Contact: Kim Stewart (stewart@unb.ca) and Sherry Rose (srose@unb.ca) 

Building: online via Eventbrite